Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Action Adventure Thriller

United States

English

May 23, 2025

Status: upcoming

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Movie Details:

Also known as	Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part Two
Based on	Mission: Impossible by Bruce Geller
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release date	May 23, 2025
Running time	TBA
Age rating	TBA
Starring	Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Angela Bassett, Henry Czerny
Directed by	Christopher McQuarrie
Written by	Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen
Produced by	Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie
Cinematography by	Fraser Taggart
Edited by	Eddie Hamilton
Music by	Lorne Balfe
Casting By	Mindy Marin
Production Design by	Gary Freeman
Art Direction by	Anthony Caron-Delion, Matt Gray, Matt Sharp, Cecelia van Straaten, Tom Weaving
Set Decoration by	Raffaella Giovannetti
Costume Design by	Jill Taylor
Production Company	Skydance TC Productions
Distributor	Paramount Pictures

Cast & Characters:

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
Hayley Atwell as Grace
Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn
Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis
Esai Morales as Gabriel
Pom Klementieff as Paris
Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge
Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs
Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane
Greg Tarzan Davis as Degas
Mariela Garriga as Marie
Rolf Saxon as William Donloe
Holt McCallany as Bernstein
Nick Offerman as Sydney
Frederick Schmidt as Zola Mitsopolis
Mark Gatiss as the heads of the NSA
Charles Parnell return as the heads of the NRO
Janet McTeer
Hannah Waddingham
Lucy Tulugarjuk
Katy O’Brian
Tramell Tillman
Stephen Oyoung

Storyline:

The 8th entry and final film in the long-running Mission Impossible franchise.

About Movie:

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is the sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and the eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series.

On January 14, 2019, Tom Cruise announced plans for the seventh and eighth films to be shot back-to-back, with Christopher McQuarrie writing and directing both. Initially set for release on July 23, 2021, and August 5, 2022, Paramount later decided not to proceed with this plan in February 2021.

Principal photography for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two began on March 23, 2022. Filming locations included Longcross Studios, the Lake District in the UK, Malta, South Africa, and Norway. In December 2022, filming concluded in the UK, with the production moving to Apulia, Italy, to shoot aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush.

Amid the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, production delays were mistakenly reported but clarified as merely awaiting the completion of Part One’s promotion. Filming officially paused in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike and resumed in March 2024, though a submarine malfunction caused further delays in May.

During filming in England, Tom Cruise and Esai Morales were spotted performing stunts involving an airborne biplane, with Cruise clinging to the aircraft’s wings during inverted flight.

In July 2024, Simon Pegg confirmed via Instagram that he had completed his scenes, though the production maintained a low profile. In November 2024, Cruise confirmed the film had wrapped and entered post-production.

Visual effects are handled by Industrial Light & Magic, with Clear Angle Studios and Halon Entertainment contributing to lidar, cyber scanning, and previsualization. In October 2023, the subtitle “Dead Reckoning Part Two” was removed and replaced with “The Final Reckoning” in November 2024.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is set to release on May 23, 2025. Its release date was previously delayed multiple times, moving from August 5, 2022, to November 4, 2022, July 7, 2023, June 28, 2024, and finally to the current date due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. It now occupies the original release slot of The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants.

Future

In June 2023, Christopher McQuarrie revealed to Fandango that Dead Reckoning Part One and The Final Reckoning would not necessarily conclude the Mission: Impossible series, as ideas for future installments were already in development.

In July 2023, during the promotion of Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise expressed his enthusiasm for continuing to portray Ethan Hunt in future films. Despite the two films initially being marketed as a farewell to the character, Cruise referenced Harrison Ford’s portrayal of Indiana Jones into his late 70s as inspiration for extending his own role in the franchise.